The pearl-shellers of Torres Strait : resource use, development and decline, 1860s-1960s

著者

• Ganter, Regina

書誌事項

The pearl-shellers of Torres Strait : resource use, development and decline, 1860s-1960s

Regina Ganter

Melbourne University Press, 1994

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

In an ethnically stratified work force, Japanese, South Sea Islander, Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal divers brought up from the sea floor the shell that produced mother-of-pearl, and sometimes pearls. Many men died at this dangerous work. This was an industry that could have given the indigenous peoples of Torres Strait an occupation that preserved their identity and independence. Yet in spite of a co-operative lugger scheme that operated fairly successfully in the early twentieth century, a real independence was not achieved. And a resource that could have been conserved by small-scale indigenous harvesting was depleted time and again by the colonial practices of resource-raiding and mass extraction. Regina Ganter charts the progress of pearl-shelling from its heyday through its several crises resulting from overfishing to its present cautious management. The book is greatly enhanced by the oral testimony of divers and boat-owners.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA28046464
• ISBN:
  • 0522845479
• LCCN: 94237419
• 出版国コード: at
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Carlton, Vic.
• ページ数/冊数: xvii, 299 p.
• 大きさ: 22 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : GV837.9
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Divers -- Australia -- Torres Strait Islands (Qld.)
  • LCSH : Torres Strait Islanders -- Employment
  • LCSH : Mother-of-pearl